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| Room with a View by Henry P. Gravelle |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A dramatic sketch with a single (hotel room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Four thieves meet in a high rise hotel room after a botched bank heist. The situation only gets worse. |
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| The Room by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. The characters cover a range of ages from twenties to seventies. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short one-act play, single set - character study with a rather sinister edge! |
| Synopsis | Four women of varying ages and infirmities enter a room, supposedly in a rest home/hospice called 'Pleasantways'. They're told to enter the room but not to leave. The women open up to each other about the circumstances that brought them to this place and their feelings about the treatment they have received. Exploration of their current position leads to a sinister discovery... |
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| A Rose for Danny by Kevin James Moriarty |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Great opportunities for character acting! |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dramatisation of the lives of a dysfunctional Irish-American family. Contains swearing and drinking. (Not necessarily in that order.) |
| Synopsis | An old man seems to have reached the end of his luck - his wife is dead, he's behind on the rent and his wealthy son-in-law doesn't want to take him in. Is it too late to repair his relationship with his two daughters and find some redemption? |
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| Rosie by Paul Bovino |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Juliette is anxious for her feisty grandmother Rosie to meet and approve her new boyfriend, Jacob, who is considerably older then her. A previous connection between Jacob and Rosie is slowly revealed, much to Jacob’s consternation. |
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| Rossetti's Women by Joan Greening |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three roles. Written to be played by one actress, but could be performed by three. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play with a minimal set. |
| Synopsis | The three women describe their relationships and contrasting lives, shared with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their emotions are gradually revealed - through which he captured their hearts and minds. In such a different era to the present day, the Pre-Raphaelites were a force to be reckoned with. |
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| A Round Turn & 3 Half Hitches by Nick Hibberd |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Two-act farce - misunderstandings, unexpected revelation of secrets, sexual misconduct and all that - set on a cruise ship. (One main set, interspersed with front-of-curtain scenes.) |
| Synopsis | Nicola and her friend Tara are on a cruise ahead of Nicola's son's wedding. But it turns out a very old flame of Nicola's (who may be her son's father) is also on the cruise. Worse, his daughter is about to marry Nicola's son! |
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| Round, Round by Linda Stephenson and Alison Hudson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Chorus size may be adjusted at Producer's discretion |
| Run Time | Around 37 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act fantasy adventure for children. |
| Synopsis | Step brother and sister Carl and Becky discover an old magical carousel, which takes them back in time to 1919. Their adventure enables them to rescue Lucy and Joe from the clutches of their evil step father. In the process they are able to reconcile themselves to their own new relationship. |
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| Royal Wedding Assembly by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ten-minute presentational play for a school class. |
| Synopsis | A potted history of the monarchy of Great Britain leading up to the Royal Wedding of William and Kate. |
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| Royals in Love by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Whilst the characters are nominally older, this is could easily be performed by a junior group. |
| Run Time | Around 16 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Light romantic comedy. Two scenes, but requiring furniture only (assuming that the definition of stage furniture runs to a fallen tree). |
| Synopsis | It's not easy for Prince Gerald and Princess Wendy to accept the court's rigid protocol and whenever they can, they sneak away. When they meet, both conceal their true identity, but things get complicated when Gerald resolves to propose. |
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| Rubbish by Ray Lawrence |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 2 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming comic monologue. No set or props required.
Also available as part of the Diamond Jubilee 2012 collection. |
| Synopsis | A review (part of a revue) of the changing attitudes to waste and recycling. |
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